Samba Config

[Tom Achtenberg]

OK now after I sent this long diatribe I go back for one more try and got
the mount into the Linux server to work from fstab!!  Now all I need is the
mount of the NT shares from fstab.  I'm not sure what to do there or even
where to begin.

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Achtenberg" <tom@ybnormal.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: Samba Config


OK, I got SWAT up now I'm really confused as to what to do with it.
Actually I'm very confused as to what to do with getting my Linux
workstation to be an active part of my network.  I'm not sure what, where or
even if I need Samba running or for what.  Should it run on the Linux
server?  The Linux workstation?  The NT server? Nowhere?  None of the books
I've found are very helpful with this.

As a review, here is my situation.  I have a RH7.2 workstation, a e-smith
gateway/server which is running RH7.1 and an NT4.0 server that has my
printers, scanner and zip drive on.  I can print from the Linux workstation
with no problem.  I have not tried the scanner or zip yet.  Entering the
following command from the console I can mount the I-bay on my
gateway/server to the workstation and access the files in it.

mount -t smbfs -o username=tom,password=foobar //chow/chow /home/chow

I have not been able to find a version of this command to put in etc/fstab
that works to mount it at boot.  I always get smb connection fail errors.

I have tried similar commands with smbfs, vfat and nfs to mount a share on
the NT server with various error messages.  mount -t vfat -o
username=tom,password=foobar /mutt:/d /home/mutt   as an example.  I usually
get an error that says "special device /mutt does not exist"

I'm really stumped as to where to go with mounting these two things in
fstab.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.